Table 1.

Effect of HCE prophylactic treatment on peritoneal cell activation and local and systemic inflammatory mediators in mice submitted to the CLP

	Control	HCE 5	HCE 50
Spreading index (%)	13.1 ± 2.0a	17.3 ± 3.3*	36.2 ± 3.1*
Spontaneous H2O2 release (μM)	10.4 ± 0.1	17.2 ± 0.2*	19.2 ± 0.2*
Nitrite in the culture supernatant (μM)	5.4 ± 0.7	6.3 ± 0.5	7.6 ± 0.5
Seric Nitrite (μM)	165.1 ± 2.5	155.3 ± 3.1*	127.7 ± 2.3*
Seric TNF (UL/mL)	4.0 ± 1.1	2.5 ± 0.5*	0.5 ± 0.2*

^aThe results were expressed as mean ± S.E.M (10 animals/group).

*p < 0.05 when compared to the control group.